Estrada said if it will not be done, the country will have “top government officials, even senators, who are in cahoots with drug syndicates.”

“If the President would not go after and shame those mayors and other elected public officials who are involved in illegal drugs, pretty soon we’ll have top government officials, even senators, who are in cahoots with drug syndicates,” Estrada said.

“We don’t want our country to be run by drug lords,” he added.

Estrada said that there is nothing wrong with Duterte’s shame campaign in which he names some mayors allegedly involved in illegal drug activities in the country.

Estrada said he supports the naming of fellow mayors involved in drugs, saying that Duterte is on the right track in eradicating narcopolitics in the country.